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combating, shady dealings starts april 29th on d, w. ah mm. i've always been drawn to the far north, pristine nature and escape from civilization. ah. almost like being on another planet. at least that's what i thought you come and help me out here. just a 2nd there. ah, this is horrible. you see here becoming

a plastic archaeologist. sorry. the whole earth is just so this, these layers. what has that different generation? if you would just figure out how much plastic there is just along this little coastline, is hot breaking everywhere, visit thick. and now i'm here helping in in you it pick up garbage on a deserted island in the arctic ocean. and not just a little a lot, the rac, this across it and i, i live in a health soon so it is, you look at how the color of this and i want to touch this looks like it's from u. k. is broken. this is a boy,

maybe that's not a very new region expression. it looks like it's been in the ocean for very long side to had with her. ah okay, it's running slow us, man, i'm a stuff cornice. my name is stephanie cornel. i'm a filmmaker from dresden. most of my work has been in advertising. these jobs have taken me around the globe, including to low fulton in arctic, norway, which is where i gotta know chris lewis. he ensign. he's

a local and we worked together on a film. we seated off right away. one day he took me kayaking. we paddled to an island in the middle of the arctic ocean. it's inaccessible by foot. i think we've all seen pictures of polluted beaches before, but so much plastic waste in the arctic. i had no idea who yet. mm hm. ah visit the louis vuitton, understanding of them if they smell or, and there was even a german be able to reflect in the middle of the arctic clifton in active side. and now when i walked through the streets in germany, again,

i see garbage everywhere. it's like something changed. i didn't notice it before, and it makes me crazy. because i don't want the garbage to end up in the arctic. but how likely is it to end up in the arctic? the garbage would have to drift downstream about 600 kilometers to hamburg and from there to the north sea. then the atlantic, in the end, a piece of plastic would have to have traveled over 2500 kilometers to end up near chris in the arctic. so i, so i started doing research associate the up north in here. then out there from down here,

of course it would be really wild if it did come from the east and current home. if i release the bottle in the in the german river, alba, across the coastline could and up in the arctic. if you release a bottle on the german coast line and it stays afloat, the chances that it ends up in the arctic i think would be 95 percent. i am eric pennsville and i'm a climate physicist, an oceanographer here at utrecht university. now what happens to these are plastic or something that you throw in the ocean? it's slightly more complicated, a piece of plastic and also sing to the floor. it can also end up and beach. so there's ample, what unity for a piece of plastic to not end up in the arctic but gets done. and unfortunately, we don't know, we don't have food enough simulations or models and theory yet to exactly calculate what the probability is in reality, something to go from germany all the way into,

into the arctic. because what we found out a few years ago is that the amount of plastic that is currently drifting at the surface of the ocean is probably less than one percent of all the plastic that has ever gone into the ocean. so 20 times more plastic enters the ocean in a single year than we can now account for at the surface of the ocean. 99 percent of the plastic is probably missing. so domain name now is to figure out where the plastic is or is opening up, the deer come i'm and so i came up with the idea of simply taking a bottle, feeding it with the gps transmitter and watching what happened to them. but i needed help

me. i law bennett my not bands organ. when i asked my neighbor, i knew he was studying technical design at the dresden university of technology. paula, his name is paul vice. i thought, hey, he's a tinkerer and a real tech head, or i'll ask him and i'm taking to his simplest idea, was to build a 3 d models in which i would then have printed them, whatever. you can then just put the gps tracker inside a seal and thompson on also saudi. i idea that's the planned and now it's just a matter of trying it to her. correct

yeah, here we are. following up down there at the u. s. loveseat, i think i'll walk for the off. can i? well i'm excited. ok. ready? okay, ready. all right. ok. oh and one i'm fly on 3 by oh,

i didn't want to hear the bottle story. i terrance? oh i see flashes, i'm sorry. yeah. no idea what the bottle supposed to be. i'm still getting a gps signal. i was right there at the spot that the bottles just not there. the flashes i've gotta tell you, sunk does not have i think so. i think maybe it filled up and it's now on the water . i well i got a lot of rocks that we have moved, piles of garbage instead, right where my bottle supposed to be more garbage. moreover, full trash cans was. but do you know what i found? but he is another message in a bottle. what? i'll have to break it open a. do you have

a double thing with because he did a broken trash. can i pay you? glad you found my message in a bottle. i drew this picture for you. my name's carlos. i'm 5 years old and i live in dresden. i would be very happy to get a letter from you. sonny greetings, carla carlo did a nice job with 36 kilometers later. i realized that this is all more complicated than i thought. our 1st drifter was a flop, but hey, at least i've got a new pen pal. i so kaufman on, so we needed

a new boil. miss the one that wouldn't sink on. we also needed more battery powered solar. maybe by through the law. does. i'm a contract. i'm almost forever. that would be cool. circ were yes, the p 68, it's unthinkable is info all . ah ah, you see the water with sliced? that's bad. stop him and i think we have to re do it all.

think if i am to explain myself, i would say my name is christine 32 year old. i am half dreamland, my mother site and a half danish to weaken from my father's foot. and nan, so i've always been very fascinated with the ocean and that's the element that i feel at home. my clean and the other thing that i need visited when i was 1st time i remember there was baptism,

but i only have fragments of memory in greenland. if you walked just a 100 meters, you're far from civilization. i never had that idea of moving to a local. i had an idea of traveling all of knowing. after that month i told my friends, but i'm sorry, i'm going to stay here and i had the toughest job. my, my my car broke down and i had no money. the only job i could get was at the factory here. i was living 10 kilometers from it. started at $530.00 in the middle of the polar winter, the horrible weather for 3 months. and i being with been bicycling and have you had to borrow equipment from people that this was like chris and now you have to stuff to borrow. you just take

it like that's the thing about some people say they have a great experience happening. but for me, the 1st formative years and placement. this is what i'm going to do. this is who i am, and this is what i want to do. expand excited shawn as well as the invisibles guitar. it's changed a bit. the dawkins and associates, it's different now. i figured young,

where do i start? oh, my friend unit is a study with himself meter. he works at the plastic smithy, heine, the recycle plastic. it's a group that recycles plastic here was cut out a sort and shred to plastic waste. hang them muska cuffed. it can then be melted down again and recast denial or form things on garbage minute. that's where i came up with these rings in against form home. the rings are supposed to support the whole structure of plastic. and we only use a very small amount of plastic. and we use recycle to plastic. so it's basically plastic neutral, classic not her, which is nice and both format as you can find it right here. nature. sure nice. now we have all this garbage residence hall, them. you have it all a told in english and between the rings. you see these disks, so banashali is cork, but they're super sustainable with super buoyancy. it is, however, a bit hard to say how much weight it can carry and for how long does that. because

even cork absorbs water at some point to buffer. maybe it float steeper now or something or he is the boy with the bulk of land. it was completely under water, a total of 80 kilometers within 3 months from time warner. and on top of that, our tracker, it's definitely waterproof and lasts about a year. i'd say 300 days, something like that far with us with we eventually learned that the river can carry both our boy and trash a long way. especially when running high pools, new boy allowed us to continually adjust the prototype and fix problems depending on the river levels. our prototypes took around 3 months to cover 80 kilometers with several brakes along the way. it leaked of improvisation. it's definitely

because of the low water levels, the way it's positioned you can tell it'll probably be carried away again when the levels rise. since he rescued us, that looks pretty good. we decided to build several boys and then set them out along the elbow. every 100 kilometers so that there parts could overlap there. good above it. let's get started. it's now 1230 and we have to finish today. addition if i'll start. okay, whoa whoa. wow. how works right?

the laser in the spending these will be the covers with information like a contact details and the names of the boys sponsors line. unfortunately, the weather's a bit but put into a bit of short on time. come up on 515 minutes later for the ortho. with ah

couple of people with it's a little after 7 and we really need to get this done today when a healthy ah to mm

hm no, i contact cap, here's the captain on and the guest of honor by the to the fin. hello. oh, hello, carlos farmer, i found has already tested the boat and i've got the rug ready. yep. so that was the captain. you have to tell stuff on what to do. it's clerk and sir calla. calla. we're ready. this is the drop, the boy was it. and was yes,

floating love, or if we did well, basin one of those, then we go downstream and put one out every 80 to 100 kilometers so that their roots overlap it against the embassy. and then we wait on them shamela was possessed. ah who was ex 90 ok. when

i have a quick bite of what the project started with the growing scientific interest in the environmental problem. if marine letter at some point, you just can't ignore it any more. if it will, then i will then i shouldn't have been mailed. i'm or is anisha and i shall just. i'm a marine biologist. no, i don't have my doctorate quite yet. but i think when the film is finished, if i well that, did it other one bedroom the homeless in may are those before. i mean, of course we found out a lot for us is always the case in science. i know for every question on said 3 new questions and we're always the main findings. all that garbage doesn't deal,

travel along the north seas main current board. but what we also found out is that gonna be just very susceptible to wind in for them to hunger done that i'm up where we released him, the boys a total of 3 times a year on those 60 $3400.00 timber boys were released in the north sea in the tributaries law and offshore of, of you look measure to response rate. the literally for 40 percent life it's actually 43 percent finished in the direction of the current. we know that waste is basically driven into the gym and bang and then more or less along the coast of flights we call shine and denmark to the north. and then along the norwegian coastline out in the arctic because mm. but this line is not so heavily populated by and that means although the small islands that i think there will be a oh, it's just us. okay, so my new business feel, boys really make it not just to denmark,

but it may be that they land somewhere here along the swedish co. steven was that they then go out again with a tight and then drift out along the coast. if no, wait, what's the i take it to act as we still have an hour right out of that. yeah. another hour status with that or not crazy. we'll get 90 people from to one let you know we're taking china in total and whole another ambulance the one to talk to you about like no way what we want to do, whether we want to re book it, move it forward. i mean, listen to me, new. do we have dates?

we're just love to go on the streets and the very necessary things. she's like getting groceries. just need to be as you know, you go out the door. thank you just to still get good. 02 years of work and one last minute film, shoot with chris before he moved south to study. and suddenly the world comes to a standstill. down thing is you'd have to climb $2.00 to $14.00 days if you wanted to do the i'm going to do gas electric. i've been trying and looking into the government, but it's difficult to get you to know right now. no country is kind of locked in, and the only thing moving in between borders is classic and these all adrift. hm. so what does it does not as your man. his name is wyatt, so he's

a must've got so he rescued it from the water kids. now it's going to help bob. all right. nice to meet you. pretty good. i think it's funny. right. wired. miss wyatt. oh, hold up dinner on board. okay, bye truth. sylvie, we found this boy from throwing it back. mm oh. oh oh, hello. hi, stefan. hi stefan. i just didn't read the name. okay. okay, i'm hannah and this is my sister marie. and we are from amber campbell, and we found a deep clean together with an assistant, lena oakley,

in the corner. it's a non profit company again, be ha, yeah, we started doing to clean up some friends and family last year on the phone for stopping. and it grew really quickly and a lot of people joined till and now we do it regularly with the flicker mrs. yeah, as of right, yes, that's the one that was right at the beginning of the locked down. we got a call that we should throw the boy back in the water and cook oven, and that was super exciting, but it was the push button with yeah, yes, and we went there and then we watched the current little bit 1st. we got some advice. so that i knew exactly where to throw it in audit bestbuy list. i'm alpha when i go for it. yeah. very good. good of if you meet is most banker. all right,

thanks. bye. i found this in the atlantic ocean 5 or 6 years ago, but you can't even tell what it was. that's a, it's actually the process of micro plastic formation. all these little crumbs that we see here, they used to be pieces of these larger yellow pieces. this was actually just sitting around in my house. i've only moved it a few times and it's still decomposing. and that's basically what happens in the environment that these larger objects continue to decompose until they become micro plastic. my name is dr. laws good to me. i'm a marine biologist at the alpha vega institute in brown. my husband is basically i study the reactions of marine animals and ecosystem all to a changing environment. and these changes can be natural, but they can also be caused by humans, such as climate change or the pollution. a

plastic object is more or less unique and there is this variety of animals that are sensitive and react in many different ways to the plastic. the effects are basically as diverse as the animal world itself. but is there high fish? what we often observe in many animals is that micro plastics in the tissues will trigger oxidative stress. does this kind of damage the genetic material and can also damage the facts that are necessary for example, to build up cell membranes. proteins can also be attack. i'm creating a sort of inflammation in here on hika research vessel from the alfred vega institute for coal and marine research. i will now launch the boys

ever got it? yeah, yeah. it's been anchored with the thing. yeah. i'm actually pretty optimistic that they'll start moving again when conditions change in height and then the tides, the wind, i don't know at all. and then they'll start floating from even though it was the same there. but i can also, there was a lot of garbage around it there with it. i think it'll stay there forever. severe. it's heading norton norton knocker garbage was

move. oh boy, that's home through stigma before breakfast. oh god end up with crazy. when you listen, when they get you find a lot of fresh everywhere. bottles everywhere, crackling, even if they are almost like a lender. they're like garbage. yeah. they were showing the breeze being collected, this was on plus, they got a well, what they actually do in the reverse re interesting. usually they avenue journey

around like maybe 10 hours. but it's interesting that on some point they stop there for like a couple of days then lower. they start moving, you get down here, we threw it in and then actually when we threw the trip to it, it just went along the curve and then it gets stuck there for a couple of days. maybe even 3 or 4. then it went further to this point that it got stuck again. and then i think yesterday, but the day before, it moved again. and it went all the way up here with a until you wish,

but you don't begin burning until you mean you'd like his hawkish from what i understood it was war stuck in a pile of mud covered all over. it's really a dumb pm and a lot of see it wins this from the is fun, 2009. crazy. so you could tell it might stay there for like even 10 years or whatever. but as soon as there's a lot of water, it just gets taken away because what, what's 10 years of a plastic lifetime? that's just like waiting one month in human life, time or whatever. right? yeah, i think doesn't grady my numbers melanie back ma'am is my name is melanie bergman. silva, i am

a deep sea research on marine litter and climate change in the arctic thinking. miranda and after that i've had with nancy twould besides, the alfred wagner institute has had the house gotten deep sea observatory since 1999. specifically to track the effect of climate change. this includes towed in camera systems which are drive one and a half meters above the sea bed, along the same route every year. the las yard long bears them tracking and data. and we've noticed that we're seeing more and more rubbish on the sea bed. and we took a detailed look at various stations and thousands of images and found that the amount of trash increases sevenfold between 242-017-5000 fiona photography since it's still got a little out of what we see is just the tip of the iceberg ones i'm off and go find nickel plastic soc funding fits. we have also started to quantify micro plastics and found enormous amounts. 5,

st. paul at one station there with that teen 1000 particles per kilogram of sediment. other than that exceeded anything we had previously imagined? talk a spare time. amazing . they come out to do this. oh, i got some interesting news. one has landed in no way. my friend. yes. yes. if i remember right, you told me that you are studying close to also or in also, right. you cause i mean it's, it's not in the arctic yet, but it's pretty close to where you live,

man. this is amazing. this is amazing. you guys know it's really cold, remiss. see all of reasons. right. this is a testament the golden, ari i yeah. so 10, right at the spot in love kill with malaysia. i got there that that's a place or all the best to get to release for sure. that was, it was about you know,

like shortly a lot of different material disagree with . ah, oh, crazy. look at that guy from fred theresa laska post it. it is wrecked. man. it is just destroyed on the upper side. saw it also, cuz i'm right now writing on the continent, printing fasting, and their ability to host invasive species. you know that whenever chris and the

ocean can get your microsoft, this is exactly the problem, like how in travels and some of the plastic with you along the coast line. no, not. even if some boys were still moving, it was clear that german garbage was drifting over way to norway. it just took much longer than expected. so for this is the animation that forgot. so i look forward to oh, this one was almost made. i had over there. what's the moving read here? says emily thought those 2. now here it stops for you. but in reality, probably what happened is that tiny bits broke off. they could have forced, but they can slowly step by step by step. every time we go smaller, smaller, that's how we could michael plastic in the market. damn what we found over $10000.00 particles of micro plastic liter mounted z. i just typed of this show

that able micro plastic goes everywhere on or i was i'm planning in corporate and we scientists are relatively united in our opinion that we will no longer be able to get it out. but most of the plastic that is now in the oceans will remain that much of the large amount of ways will break down into micro plastics. but we won't really get it out, especially not if it is the size of micro plastics from garnishment and couldn't quite make or plastic this yeah. exception. as long as all i must will do for yes. yeah. happy i am worried i a study last year showed for example, that micro plastics even pass from the mother to not yet born fetuses via the placenta to body plot center. and if in the show not born wouldn't offend, it's disturbing. the children are exposed to it before they're even before the hot surveys. and i wonder if this somehow impact their development and fickle changes

to some way by entitled to m gaffa. and that's the note and i form rubica, did god thank you. thanks everyone. regardless of gender, political affiliation and age, you know, little every body produces garbage in. and just because you took out the garbage bag or the garbage tray on, it is not gone. what happens afterwards? what, what are the consequences for nature for society? if the don't think about having been for the same kind of back door mahan to come on down. if you think about it, then it becomes clear very quickly that it is not only an environmental problem, but a social problem. we live in an economic system that is based on continuous growth by a constant increase in production. at some point we have so much that we can no longer control the house. and we're starting to see those effects. something that seemed as infinite as the ocean where we thought everything with her when will never see

again, is bringing all that material back to us now. yeah, i think it's gone so much i guess. and that i think is the most important thing. the plastic is on top of all the other pressures that we put on the ocean. it's on top of the ocean warming. the ocean is sort of cation, the ocean, over fishing, the noise, pollution, all the other things that we're doing to the ecosystems in the ocean. it could very well be that the plastic is, is to drop the tips your bucket avenue theory, respiratory. okay. so this a new j p made. it's

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